Last weekend, Glenn Greenwald and I reported that in the midst of the shutdown, the first bill the U.S. Senate was planning to vote on -- a bill given the symbolically important title S.1 -- would be on Middle East policy and include a measure aimed at protecting Israel from boycotts by Americans. I don’t use the word “optics” much, but man, the optics of that one were bad, and once it was public, it began to fall apart, with Senate Democrats, even some who are sponsors of the bill, saying publicly that the Senate should first reopen the government before doing anything else.
Tulsi 2020 and the Committee kerfuffle
Tulsi 2020 and the Committee kerfuffle
Tulsi 2020 and the Committee kerfuffle
Last weekend, Glenn Greenwald and I reported that in the midst of the shutdown, the first bill the U.S. Senate was planning to vote on -- a bill given the symbolically important title S.1 -- would be on Middle East policy and include a measure aimed at protecting Israel from boycotts by Americans. I don’t use the word “optics” much, but man, the optics of that one were bad, and once it was public, it began to fall apart, with Senate Democrats, even some who are sponsors of the bill, saying publicly that the Senate should first reopen the government before doing anything else.